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To: Swordmaker

Of course, nobody is killing Microsoft because nobody plays as well in Microsoft’s prime space, the enterprise. MS simply has to learn the hard lesson that Ballmer never learned, that you can’t own every single market.


4 posted on 01/06/2015 9:00:15 PM PST by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...sounding pretty good about now.)
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To: dayglored

I think Microsoft’s intent is to not own every market, but be like Wal-Mart and have a significant action in every market. If, in every tech market, Microsoft had 20% of the action, it would probably be the largest tech company on earth.


50 posted on 01/06/2015 10:24:39 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: dayglored
Microsoft’s prime space, the enterprise

The financial problem for Msoft is that many enterprise users are (rightly) conservative about rolling out upgrades (our company went to Office 2007 in 2012 and Win 7 in 2013), whereas the iOS using public are mostly jackdaws who can't resist buying the newest shiny thing.

91 posted on 01/07/2015 4:52:44 AM PST by Eric Pode of Croydon
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